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Microsoft 'cloud' service Azure to launch January 1

US software giant Microsoft announced Tuesday that its Internet-based cloud computing service Windows Azure will launch on January 1. Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie, pictured in 2008, revealed the official launch date for what has been described as
AFP - Wednesday, November 18

US software giant Microsoft announced Tuesday that its Internet-based cloud computing service Windows Azure will launch on January 1. More »

  • Young people browse the Internet in a cybercafe in Abidjan in August 2009. Laws regulating cybercrimes must target individuals and not society as a whole, an IT specialist told an Internet governance forum at the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Tuesday.

    Cyber laws must punish individuals not society: specialist

    AFP - Wednesday, November 18

    Laws regulating cybercrimes must target individuals and not society as a whole, an IT specialist told an Internet governance forum at the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Tuesday.

  • Google Labs on Tuesday brought more focus to finding pictures online, adding a

    Google image search gets a 'swirl'

    AFP - Wednesday, November 18

    Google Labs on Tuesday brought more focus to finding pictures online, adding a "Swirl" tool that automatically groups similar images into categories presented on results pages.

  • EU consumer protection commissioner Meglena Kuneva gives a press conference at EU headquarters in Brussels. European nations have closed down over 50 Internet websites after a crackdown on mobile phone ringtone scams often targeting youngsters.

    EU shuts down ringtone scam sites targeting youngsters

    AFP - Wednesday, November 18

    European nations have closed down over 50 Internet websites after a crackdown on mobile phone ringtone scams often targeting youngsters.

  • Microsoft's new Internet search engine Bing increased its share of the US search market in October, edging up half-a-point to nearly 10 percent, online tracking firm comScore said Tuesday.

    Bing gains search market share, nears 10 percent

    AFP - Wednesday, November 18

    Microsoft's new Internet search engine Bing increased its share of the US search market in October, edging up half-a-point to nearly 10 percent, online tracking firm comScore said Tuesday.

  • YouTube launched a free tool on Tuesday that allows news organizations to highlight newsworthy video footage from

    YouTube to connect 'citizen journalists' with media outlets

    AFP - Wednesday, November 18

    YouTube launched a free tool on Tuesday that allows news organizations to highlight newsworthy video footage from "citizen journalists" on their websites.

  • This handout picture taken in 2008 shows a 41-year-old paralysed man enjoying a virtual walk in the online world of 'Second Life' in Yokohama. Experts at the Internet Governance Forum in Egypt have said technology should be harnessed better to give the world's estimated 650 million disabled people improved access to the Internet.

    Technology failing disabled net surfers: forum

    AFP - Wednesday, November 18

    Technology should be harnessed better to give the world's estimated 650 million disabled people improved access to the Internet, experts said here on Tuesday.

  • People surf the Internet in Jinan, in eastern China's Shandong province. Chinese Internet users have hailed the webcast town hall meeting held by Barack Obama, expressing hopes the US president can help them convince authorities to tear down the

    China's Internet users hail Obama's Web show

    AFP - Wednesday, November 18

    Chinese Internet users have hailed the webcast town hall meeting held by Barack Obama, expressing hopes the US president can help them convince authorities to tear down the "Great Firewall of China."

  • Amazon to launch Kindle in Canada

    Reuters - Wednesday, November 18

    TORONTO (Reuters) - U.S. Internet retailer Amazon.com Inc said on Tuesday that it was introducing Kindle, its wireless electronic reader, in Canada.

  • Internet access 'can be matter of life and death'

    AFP - Wednesday, November 18

    The inability to access to the Internet in one's own language can be life-threatening, a forum at the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh heard on Tuesday.

  • British town to offer free wi-fi to all residents

    AFP - Wednesday, November 18

    Swindon has become the first place in Britain to offer free wireless Internet access to all its 186,000 residents, in what is thought to be the first such scheme, officials said on Tuesday.

  • 'Unfriend' is New Oxford American word of the year

    AFP - Tuesday, November 17

    The New Oxford American Dictionary named "unfriend" -- as in deleting someone as a friend on a social network such as Facebook -- its word of the year on Monday.

  • Semiconductor revenue to fall 11 percent: Gartner

    AFP - Tuesday, November 17

    Worldwide semiconductor revenue is expected to decline by more than 11 percent in 2009 over last year, less than previously forecast, market research firm Gartner said Monday.

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